Found.com and "The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas"

I love Found.com., have I mentioned that? It's this site that catalogues random finds around the country - little notes, pictures, drawings and etc. that people discover. The grocery list in the book you bought at a thrift store? FOUND.com. The photo you discover in your hotel room closet? FOUND.com. The hate mail you see in the gutter? FOUND.com. Lots of fun, I promise.

The author/compiler of FOUND, Davy Rothbart, has written a book, and generally has pretty decent taste. Surfing around his site, I found a recommendation for another one of his books:

"The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas"

A short excerpt of the summary:

A few years ago, I was driving on a small two-lane highway through rural Kansas when I saw a bizarre and riveting sight—-a teenage kid had slung a surfboard between two dead tractors in the middle of a cornfield and was balanced on top, like he was practicing how to surf. Here he was, thousands of miles from either coast, the sun setting in glorious colors behind him—-I was mesmerized and sat there watching for ten minutes or so, and then I drove away; I don’t think he even saw me. But that image of him surfing in the cornfields stuck with me, and my curiosity about him kept growing more intense, so finally I decided to write a story about him, imagining what his life was like and what might have happened had our paths intersected.
http://www.foundmagazine.com/index.php?fuseaction=books.home#lonesurfer

Love it. On my "Will buy when I have a more reasonable balance on the credit card" list.